The White House and Republican Leadership’s attempts to minimize what has happened is disgusting, cynical and will likely backfire in their faces. Emailing/im’ing sexy stuff to teenage boys and the attempts to cover it up is something my grandmother (who votes) can easily understand. And won’t like one little bit. I think a lot of everyday American parents will join her in that attitude. The peril is the old chestnut — “oh it’s all a big mess of evil up there in Washington”. Don’t fall into that trap, folks. We need to turn that thinking into real energy to change the composition of who’s up there.
The GOP moralizing we’ve all endured over the past few years has turned out to be false and hollow. Republican House Leaders allowed the fox to look after the hen house and now they are scrambling. It won’t work. It’s just a shame that everyone has seen all those Dateline sex predator tv specials. See we all know what predators look, do and sound like online. And offline if they get the chance. Foley is toast and so is anyone who protected him. To mix a couple of metaphors: Someone will have to be thrown to the wolves or under the bus to satisfy the rest of America that the GOP actually cares about children — it’s an election season. It’s just a question of who and when. But Foley is not the only rep that will be stepping down is my guess. Who’d thunk the October Surprise would come early and go down like this?!?

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